"I will pay two hundred dollars to your father’s estate ..."

August 16, 2018, 08:54 PM

CoolRich59

Col. Stonehill:... when I have in my hand a letter from your lawyer absolving me of all liability from the beginning of the world to date.

Mattie Ross: I will take two hundred dollars for Judy, plus one hundred for the ponies and twenty-five dollars for the gray horse that Tom Chaney left. He was easily worth forty. And that is three hundred twenty-five dollars total.

Col. Stonehill: The ponies have no part in it! I will not buy them.

Mattie Ross: Then the price for Judy is three hundred twenty-five dollars.

Col. Stonehill: I would not pay three hundred and twenty-five dollars for winged Pegasus!

Just watched True Grit (the Coen Brothers version) again. What a great movie. I love John Wayne, and his True Grit performance was terrific. But, I have to say that this version is better than the original.

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“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell

August 16, 2018, 11:11 PM

YooperSigs

They tell me you are a man with true grit.
Enjoyed seeing the Indian kids getting kicked off the porch.

August 17, 2018, 12:00 AM

mr kablammo

The book is 'show off' good regarding dialogue and I always recommend it in these threads. The Coen brothers version is my preference. I do miss the speech of a 'writ for a rat' but understand why the scene may have been ommitted... respect for the Duke; and to create uncertainty in the viewer.

The music in the Coen Bro.s version is excellent.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.

August 17, 2018, 07:05 AM

Rolan_Kraps

I love both. I'm not a huge Coen Brother's fan, but I thought that version did justice to the book and didn't take away from the John Wayne version. I may watch both of them tomorrow back to back while I clean my Cowboy guns and reload!